Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-01
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Next Monday the Board of Trustees will
probably levy the city tax
Twenty-three carloads of stock will pass
through to San Francisco from Nevada,
this morning.
Two carloads of excursionists will arrive
from the East by the express train to- NOR
row morning.
P. c. Smith, for some years resident of
this city and county, died on the 18th inst.
in Grant county, Oregon.
Charles L. Alderman has been rendered
the position of Judge Acknowledgement on
the staff of Governor Bartlett.
Charles Hall Adams has been commits
stoned Commissioner of Deeds for Cali
fornia, to reside at Boston, Mass.
Hermann, the illusionist, left Yesterday
for San Francisco and the Grismer-Dayies
Company passed through to that city from
the other side of the mountains.
County Treasurers settled with the Con-
troller yesterday, and paid into the State
Treasury the following sums Plumas,
$lo,795 OF; Los Angeles, $201, GAL.
Benedetto Ferrara, native of Italy, was
admitted to citizenship in Department Two
of the Superior Court yesterday, on the
testimony of G. Deluchi and f. Gabrielle.
Byron B. Brown, for some years book
keeper at the Changers Store, succeeds
Charles Jenkins as proprietor of the State
House Hotel. The transfer takes place to-
day.
The only arrests made yesterday were
those of Chang Tung, by officer wager, for
grand larceny; George W. Conrad, by of
ficer Rider, for disturbing the peace of H.
G. Hays.
The programme of the entertainment to
be given at the Metropolitan Theater next
Friday evening for the benefit of the or
phans is published in our advertising col
umns this morning.
Governor Bartlett has commissioned the
following Notaries Public E. n. E. Drake,
Anderson; J. L. Chittenden, Sumner;
Grant l. Taggart, Willow Ranch, Modoc
county; t. f. Raney, Napa.
A carload of thoroughbred horses belong
ing to George Hearst, and including his
purchases at the Winters sale Saturday, will
be forwarded from Rancho del Paso to his
ranch at Paso Robes to-day.
Chang Tung was arrested yesterday after
noon by officer Wager for grand larceny, on
the complaint of Gep Kee and Wing Hop,
who swear that he took $l25 from their
washhouse early Sunday morning.
Wednesday being the Feast of the Pur-
ification of the B. V. NJ, commonly called
Candlemas Day. the ceremony of blessing
the wax-candles for divine service will
take place in ST. Roses Church, at s o'clock
A. NJ.
Several committees of prominent and
influential Democrats were yesterday
closeted with Governor Bartlett 1t is I'M
derstood that their business was that of
presenting the claims of certain applicants
for the position of State Gardener.
Many swallows were seen in and near
the city Sunday, devoting much of their
time TO quarreling over last seasons nests,
and giving people an opportunity TO proph-
esy an early spring. 1t NAV be that they
made mistake, coming too soon, for yes
terday few if any of them were TO be seen.
There were plenty of bar swallows but no
barn swallows.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature yesterday was CO. and $50
with light southerly winds and foggy
weather during the forenoon, and light to
fresh southerly winds and clear to fair
weather during the afternoon and night
Barometer falling steadily, reading at
o'clock last night, 1886 inches, and the
temperature at that hour, 400.
The game at which the two Immigrants
from Denver, en- route to Los Angeles, were
fleeced in this city on Sunday by fellows
who had gained their confidence was top
and bottom" and not bunko. The efforts
to find the swindlers have been unsuccess-
full, and the unfortunate travellers have
gone on their way with their faith in hui
manity knocked into smithereens.
Harry Robinson, who was convicted by a
with Bertha Abbott in the larceny of $40
from George Lindley, a stranger in town,
escaped with light sentence yesterday
- days Fellows who fur
nish morphine to dope inebriates with,
in order that they may be robbed, only lack
courage and opportunity to commit more
serious crimes.